Enjoying Thanksgiving with a Senior Loved One

by Senior Scene | Oct 31, 2024 | Community, Featured Article (06), General Interest, Magazine, Senior Health

  Enjoying Thanksgiving with a Senior Loved One By Traci Graf, RN                 The holidays are approaching us, unfortunately this time of year can be especially difficult for senior citizens. Loneliness and depression are common as many seniors watch families...

Torpedoes at Cape Canaveral

by Senior Scene | Sep 30, 2024 | Community, Featured Article (06), General Interest, Local History, Magazine, Nostalgia

  Torpedoes at Cape Canaveral By Diane Barile                 The crew at the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse saw sailors abandon ship as flames and blooming smoke devoured the tanker Pan Massachusetts.  They could little believe in 1942 that enemy submarines had been...

Cape Canaveral What’s Happening?

by Senior Scene | Aug 31, 2024 | Community, Featured Article (06), General Interest, Local History, Magazine, Nostalgia

  Cape Canaveral What’s Happening? By Diane Barile   That’s a five hundred year old question.  Today, if asked, you might say “Oh, that’s some rocket going off again.”  For millennia it’s been as in the poem by Mildred Meigs:...

My mother refuses to discuss assisted living. Can you tell me about in-home care?

by Senior Scene | Aug 1, 2024 | Community, Featured Article (06), General Interest, Magazine, Senior Health

  My mother refuses to discuss assisted living. Can you tell me about in-home care? by Lisa Conway The right kind of care for aging parents is an issue many adult children wrestle with. Assisted living, rehabilitation facilities and memory care communities are staffed...

Growing Old Is a Challenge

by Senior Scene | May 31, 2024 | Featured Article (06), General Interest, Magazine, Senior Health

  Growing Old Is a Challenge by Joe Steckler President, Helping Seniors of Brevard My 80-year-old brother once said to me, “Brother, you are old”. I thought about that and then replied, “Yes, I am”. Since I can’t change the fact that I am...

Sometimes I just have to listen to my “gut” instead of facts. Is that normal?

by Senior Scene | Apr 30, 2024 | Featured Article (06), General Interest, Magazine, Senior Health, Veteran News

  Sometimes I just have to listen to my “gut” instead of facts. Is that normal? by Lisa Conway Humans are endowed with five incredible senses that teach us early lessons and help guide us through a lifetime of experiences. We learn not to touch a fire, but to...